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Certain Republicans in Orange County have distinguished themselves for posting overtly racist “humor” ever since Barack Obama was elected president in 2008. First Dean Grose posted an image of watermelons on the White House lawn and Marilyn Davenport’s shared on a Photoshopped portrait of chimps with the president’s face superimposed over the baby chimp. And…

In presenting a substitute motion to condemn anti-Semitic remarks by Santa Ana Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez, Santa Ana Councilman Vince Sarmiento suggested a county wide “town hall” to examine the issues of racism and bigotry throughout Orange County. Sarmiento says the City Manager’s office is working on the venue and program for this town…

When Villa Park Council member Deborah Pauly used venomous words and threats against Muslims at a Yorba Linda rally in February, the Democratic Party of Orange County issued a statement condemning the comments and even suggested that the comments went beyond rhetoric and were designed to “inflame and incite.” The DPOC also suggested that Pauly might…

We all need to thank Marilyn Davenport for the lesson that one should pause before hitting “send” on an email. And her later chracterization of the “coward” who forwarded the Obama as the child of chimps email to her friends is actually the opposite; that person exposed Davenport as someone with a sense of humor…

Hat tip to Scott Moxley at OC Weekly for this post that exposes a so-racist-it-can’t-be-considered-humor email photo that makes light of President Obama’s birth certificate by showing him as the baby of apes. The email, from Marilyn Davenport, a Tea Bagger who is a member of the Central Committee of the OC Republican Party, was sent…